Early Staffordshire Franklin's Maxims Child's Cup, Little Strokes Fell Big Oaks vase with bird plus several pages of illustrations

plus several pages of illustrations diagramming the exact locations of each

these I believe are wood

but it might shine up a bit)

marking the occasion of the recipient’s birthday on an April 8

) The striped piece sticking straight up like a feather is a huge seed pod of some sort I believe

Early Staffordshire Franklin's Maxims Child's Cup, Little Strokes Fell Big Oaks vase with bird plus several pages of illustrationsI'll never get over my affection for antique Staffordshire child's cups, which I love for their forms as well as for their transfer decoration, hand colored in this case. But what sold me on this early (c. 1820s 30s) and rare one one of a number made featuring Franklin's Maxims, which I found together with another I just listed, and both of which I'd never seen before was the text reading "Little Strokes Fell Big Oaks By diligence and patience the